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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1936
Page
14
Southern furniture manufacturers anticipate higher prices at the Southern Exposition beginning July 20. Chicago market reports show record attendance of 5427 registrants and brisk trading with prices up about ten percent from January levels. Traders expect replenishment demand across nationwide stores as inventories dwindle.
Funeral services for Mrs. A B Goodman were conducted at Deep River Friends church by Rev J Clay Madison. Soloists Mrs F L Lanier and Miss Hazel Lanier sang trio hymns. Pallbearers included Co V Shankle F H Hicks F W Hicks C C Welborn F R Paschall and Norman C Montgomery. Interment followed in Deep River cemetery.
L. B. Hawks of 1201 Park Street displayed a large twin squash grown in his garden to The Enterprise yesterday afternoon. The joined fruits are equal in size and grow side by side.
Vital statistics for High Point show a net population gain short by 82 as births and deaths declined in the fiscal year ended June 30. There were 706 births, 366 deaths, with whites and Negroes detailed. May and June figures are provided, highlighting heart disease, pneumonia, and auto accident fatalities.
Edwin W. Pearce, chairman of the Guilford County Board of Elections, said no formal complaint was filed by Keith Harrison of High Point against absentee votes in the recent gubernatorial primary. The filing deadline passed last night. Harrison had challenged many absentee votes in High Point at the polls' close.
Guilford County Young Democrats will meet Monday at 8 00 in the county courthouse to elect new officers. D Newton Farnell Jr of Greensboro will not seek reelection leaving the presidency wide open. Members from across the county are expected to attend in large numbers.
RALEIGH July 9 Dr. Roma S Cheek chairman of the state commission for the blind said today that further federal aid for the blind would require two major changes in the law creating the commission Under the social security act the state or counties must match federal appropriations for blind relief More state participation will have to be provided, he declared.
The University of Southern California displays a massive hammer engineered to deliver up to 3 000 000 pounds of force. Details on its purpose or deployment remain limited.
C H Rhodes spoke at a Rotary luncheon at the Sheraton outlining the U S Patent Office origins in 1790 and patent totals through 1830 9 957. by April 30 1935 about two million patents issued. He noted Edison tops with about 1100 patents and 15 000 patents granted to women. He cited pooling by numbers of manufacturers and said modern inventions eased household drudgery. Vice-President Forrest Johnson presided. John P Bolt joined Wachovia Bank as trust officer. Barrow Jr and Mike Boyce attended.
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